Barcelona ‘disconnect’ affecting type – Flick
Barcelona coach Hansi Flick feels a disconnect between defence and assault is affecting his crew after their winless run in LaLiga stretched to a few video games with a 2-1 loss to Las Palmas on Saturday.
Sandro Ramirez and Fábio Silva scored both facet of a Raphinha strike as Las Palmas surprised Barça on the Olympic Stadium and ruined their one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary celebrations.
Barça are actually with no league win since Nov. 3 and so they may very well be knocked off the highest of the desk if Actual Madrid, 4 factors again, win their two video games in hand.
“I consider within the gamers,” Flick stated in a information convention when requested about his facet’s dip in type since successful 11 or their opening 12 LaLiga video games.
“We now have an excellent crew. The matches like in the present day, it occurs, OK. Once I began right here, I stated to the gamers ‘no excuses.’ We now have to maintain going as a crew.
“If you play as a crew, or higher than as a crew, and everybody defends nicely, together with within the offence, and is nicely related, we are able to play and win in opposition to each crew.
“But when it is not, if some gamers are disconnected, then it is not good and we’ve to talk about that.”
Poor defending particularly led to Las Palmas’ second objective, scored by Silva after Raphinha’s 14th objective of the marketing campaign had acquired Barça again into the sport, however Flick was insistent it’s a crew downside.
“If you see how the Las Palmas objectives are [scored], we make some errors, but it surely was not solely the final 4, it began additionally in entrance,” he added. “And we’ve to talk about that.”
The loss to Las Palmas comes after a draw with Celta Vigo, when Barça surrendered a two-goal lead, and a defeat at Actual Sociedad.
It’s a run of type which is threatening to derail Barça’s season and all the great work they did early on, however Flick says confidence stays excessive within the squad going into successive away video games in opposition to Mallorca, Actual Betis and Borussia Dortmund. “The gamers consider in how they will play soccer, how sturdy they are often,” he stated. “I say it once more, we want connection and in the present day it was not [there].
“We are able to do it. We now have the standard. At present we’ve 70% possession and 27 pictures. I missed that [efficiency] in entrance of objective to attain the objectives.
“On the finish it is two objectives for them and one for us. We now have to just accept it. It is a massive disappointment in the present day.”
Flick additionally confirmed that Dani Olmo did not come off the bench as a result of he had a knock, including that he ought to return for Tiuesday’s journey to Mallorca.
Marc Casadó may even be again from suspension for that sport, whereas Lamine Yamal is in rivalry to begin after coming back from an ankle harm in its place in opposition to Las Palmas.
